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Beach, FL -- We are pleased to announce that InterLab®
Supply has become a sponsor of Water and Wastewater.com.
The PolySeed® product line, was
first developed in 1976 by PolyBac Corporation. PolySeed
products quickly became an industry staple. While other
commercial BOD5 testing seeds came into the marketplace, the
PolySeed line remained a market leader due to high quality
product and company focus on the environmental laboratory
testing industry.
In 1997 the PolySeed product line
was bought by InterLab Supply. The new ownership has
maintained the high manufacturing and Quality Control
standards that PolySeed customers have come to expect.
InterLab Supply dedicates it’s resources to the continuing
development and technical support of PolySeed products.
"The tools you need for a
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InterLab Supply continues to
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products that yield consistent, reliable, accurate results.
InterLab backs those products with exceptional technical
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AECOM to acquire Boyle
Engineering
 LOS
ANGELES, CA -- AECOM Technology Corporation, a leading
provider of professional technical and management support
services for government and commercial clients around the
world, announced today that it has entered into an agreement
to acquire Boyle Engineering, a Newport Beach, Calif.-based
engineering firm that specializes in the water sector,
including drinking water, wastewater treatment and
water-resource management.
Boyle will further strengthen
AECOM’s growing environmental practice, particularly in the
important water and wastewater markets. Boyle has an
especially strong presence in the southeast and western
United States, and employs more than 600 people.
“We are excited about welcoming
Boyle to the AECOM family,” said John M. Dionisio, AECOM
president and chief executive officer. “For more than 65
years, Boyle has been a leader in the delivery of water and
wastewater services. They will enhance our leadership in the
water and environmental infrastructure markets.”
Phil Petrocelli, Boyle president
and chief executive officer, echoed Dionisio’s comments.
“Joining AECOM will provide an excellent opportunity to
expand our client offerings – by practice area and
geographically,” he said. “The scale and scope of a global
leader like AECOM will also benefit our employees through
increased professional development opportunities.”
Petrocelli will take on a broader leadership role within
AECOM’s combined water business. He will also join the AECOM
Leadership Council.
The investment banking firm of
Farlie Turner advised Boyle on the transaction. This
acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions,
including approval by Boyle shareholders and necessary
regulatory approvals.
About AECOM
AECOM is a global provider of
professional technical and management support services to a
broad range of markets, including transportation,
facilities, environmental and energy. With more than 33,000
employees around the world, AECOM is a leader in all of the
key markets that it serves.
More information visit:
http://www.aecom.com/
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WERF asks, "Is your dream worth
$100,000?"
 Alexandria,
VA -- How big are your dreams? Is your research ahead of the
curve? Do you need financial backing from a visionary
organization?
Those
are the questions that the Water Environment Research
Foundation is asking researchers doing work in wastewater,
water reuse, biosolids, stormwater, watersheds, and other
areas. WERF is offering $100,000 to support innovative
research that will lead to solutions for communities and the
organizations that serve them.
The
annual Paul L. Busch award is one of the largest in the
water quality industry. Now in its eighth year, the award
has provided nearly three quarters of a million dollars to
support researchers imbued with the visionary spirit of its
namesake, a leader in the water quality community who
challenged engineers and scientists to devise new
technologies and solutions for addressing ongoing water
quality issues.
Recent
recipients are breaking new ground, exploring issues like
the fate of commercial nanomaterials in wastewater treatment
receiving waters, self-sustaining wastewater treatment
facilities through the use of microbial fuel cells, and the
effective removal of endocrine disrupting compounds in the
waste streams of biofuel producers.
Cutting edge research is often just far enough ahead of the
curve to be overlooked by more traditional funding sources,
says 2004 award recipient and Penn State professor Bruce
Logan.
“There
aren’t a lot of opportunities for people with truly
groundbreaking ideas to get funding,” Logan points out.
“This award is wonderful because it rewards innovation;
gives researchers pursuing new, creative solutions an outlet
for their work; and provides some much appreciated
visibility.”
The
award is granted to an individual or team. Utilities,
universities, environmental firms, and others conducting
water quality research or engineering work are encouraged to
apply. Applicants may self-nominate or be nominated by a
third party. Interested individuals or teams must submit
their application to WERF by June 1, 2008.
All
submissions should be sent to:
Water Environment Research Foundation
Paul L. Busch Award
635 Slaters Lane, Suite 300
Alexandria, VA 22314
More
information on the Paul L. Busch Award, as well as the
application process, is online at
http://www.werf.org/PaulLBusch
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New "Intelligent" Pump from
ITT Goulds
 Seneca
Falls, NY -- Marking an industry first, onboard pump
intelligence is now a standard feature of the world’s
most popular process pump; the ANSI Model 3196 from ITT
Goulds.
The new i-FRAME provides
operations personnel, maintenance managers and
reliability engineers – the people responsible for
monitoring and repairing rotating equipment on a 24/7
basis – with early warning of trouble so that changes to
the process or machine can be made before failure
occurs.
The i-FRAME’s stainless-steel
condition monitor is nested securely atop the power end
to measure critical vibration and temperature readings.
Variations in temperature or vibration that exceed
preset parameters will activate the early warning system
by displaying flashing red lights, easily recognized
during routine walk-arounds.
“The Goulds Model 3196 is
already the best-selling process pump in the world and
now we’ve made it even better,” said Patrick Prayne,
Product Manager, ANSI Process Pumps, ITT Goulds “This
increased reliability and condition monitoring
intelligence gets to the heart of our most important
customer requirement – reduced downtime and equipment
life cycle cost.”
In addition to the condition
monitor built into the pump, the patent-pending i-FRAME
design incorporates many other standard features
designed to increase reliability and the life of the
pump.
Prayne said. “So in addition
to providing great additional value, buying the 3196
i-FRAME gives our customers peace of mind in knowing
that they have an authentic Goulds pump, designed and
manufactured to our quality standards to minimize
lifecycle costs and maximize uptime.”
The Goulds 3196 pump
continues to be recognized as a workhorse in chemical,
oil and gas, petrochemical, pulp and paper, and other
industrial processes, making it the most popular process
pump in the world. It is available in 29 different sizes
with a wide range of features for handling challenging
applications.
For more information visit:
http://www.gouldspumps.com/
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People post their requests
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Mr. Daength needs to remove
nickel from wastewater:
My plant use polymerize
aluminum chloride to be coagulant aid of heavy metal
precipitation. The good point is sludge reduction, but I
have a problem about operations, I have to adjust pH from 2
to 10 and the Ni removal is poor.
I would like to know, are
there other chemical the appropriate for Ni removal? I tried
ferric chloride, but I made high sludge.
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Thanks,
Charanya Daength
Toyota Thailand
cdaength@toyota.co.th
Mr. Ziernicki needs help with
scale removal from tank:
I have a customer that
utilizes a phosphatizer tank to etch metal before priming.
A process that I honestly don't know much about. He
has seen copious amounts of "scale" precipitate in this
system and I have not been able to come up with a means of
chemically removing this material.
The tank is filled with
Stratagard HTL and this is heated to 150-160 degrees. I have
tried hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid and phosphoric acid
with no effect. Have any of you found a non-physical
means of cleaning up a similar system?
As I stated earlier I'm not
familiar with this process as I work on boilers and cooling
systems. He's at wit's end and I just figured I'd pick
your brains for help.
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Thank you,
Brad Ziernicki
Kriss Water Treatment
brad_kriss@frontiernet.net
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Murfreesboro, Tennessee
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convert pollutants to settable solids, which are
then removed by settling, then dewatered and sent to
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| From the Job
Fair: Water Operator
"A" Position - Fort Collins, Colorado
Soldier Canyon Filter Plant,
a board operated 50 MGD water treatment plant located in
Fort Collins, Colorado is seeking a Senior Water Treatment
Plant Operator.
Job Description:
Performs routine technical
and responsible skilled work in the operation of the Soldier
Canyon Filter Plant and related facilities.
Duties include:
Inspecting the plant,
facilities, and equipment; regulating motors and apparatus;
reporting mechanical defects; collecting samples; reviewing
readings; performing lab tests, and other duties as needed.
Work is performed on an assigned, rotating shift.
Telephone: (970) 482-3143 or
Email
broberts@soldiercanyon.com
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New Sponsor : InterLab Supply
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AECOM to acquire Boyle
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WERF asks, "Is your dream
worth $100,000?"
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